Rick Laliberte (born September 13, 1958) is a former Canadian politician. Laliberte was a Member of Parliament for the riding of Churchill River, a riding that encompasses the northern half of the province of Saskatchewan.
Rick Laliberte | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for Churchill River | |
| In office June 2, 1997 – June 28, 2004 | |
| Preceded by | riding created |
| Succeeded by | Jeremy Harrison |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 13, 1958 Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Political party | NDP (1997–2000) Liberal (2000–2004) Independent (2004) |
| Profession | School administrator |
Laliberte was born and raised in Beauval, Saskatchewan. He is Métis and is fluent in Cree-Michif.[1] He was elected as a New Democratic Party candidate in the 1997 federal election, but crossed the floor on September 27, 2000, to join the Liberal Party of Canada.[2][3] He was re-elected as a Liberal party member in the 2000 federal election.[4] He then left the Liberal Party prior to the 2004 election and failed to win reelection as an independent, coming in fourth behind the NDP, Liberals and the winning Conservative, Jeremy Harrison.[5]
Electoral record edit
| 2004 Canadian federal election: Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Jeremy Harrison | 7,279 | 37.39 | +1.62 | $27,194 | |||
| Liberal | Al Ducharme | 5,815 | 29.87 | -11.94 | $52,686 | |||
| New Democratic | Earl Cook | 3,910 | 20.09 | -1.72 | $9,005 | |||
| Independent | (x)Rick Laliberte | 1,923 | 9.88 | -31.93 | – | |||
| Green | Marcella Gall | 539 | 2.77 | – | – | |||
| Total valid votes | 19,466 | 100.00 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 76 | 0.39 | -0.01 | |||||
| Turnout | 19,542 | 47.41 | -12.1 | |||||
| Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | -6.8 | ||||||
Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in the 2000 election.
| 2000 Canadian federal election: Churchill River | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | (x)Rick Laliberte | 9,856 | 41.81 | +13.41 | $39,223 | |||
| Alliance | Kerry Peterson | 7,679 | 32.57 | +0.59 | $62,019 | |||
| New Democratic | Ray Funk | 5,141 | 21.81 | -12.72 | $48,853 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | David J. Rogers | 755 | 3.20 | -1.90 | – | |||
| Canadian Action | Brendan Cross | 143 | 0.61 | – | $1,398 | |||
| Total valid votes | 23,574 | 100.00 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 95 | 0.40 | -0.09 | |||||
| Turnout | 23,669 | 59.5 | +2.3 | |||||
| Liberal gain from New Democrat | Swing | -13.1 | ||||||
Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in the 1997 election.
| 1997 Canadian federal election: Churchill River | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Rick Laliberte | 7,288 | 34.53 | – | $41,198 | |||
| Reform | Daryl Wiberg | 6,750 | 31.98 | – | $25,132 | |||
| Liberal | Roy Bird | 5,994 | 28.40 | – | $40,104 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Bert Provost | 1,077 | 5.10 | – | $79 | |||
| Total valid votes | 21,109 | 100.00 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 105 | 0.49 | ||||||
| Turnout | 21,214 | 57.2 | ||||||
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Rick Laliberte - MP
- ^ "NDP MP defects to Liberal party". CBC News. September 28, 2000. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
- ^ "Chrétien reels in another defector". The Globe and Mail. September 28, 2000. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
- ^ "West shows it considers itself a different kind of place". The Globe and Mail. November 28, 2000. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
- ^ Lyons, Murray (June 29, 2004). "Harrison ousts Laliberte". The StarPhoenix. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. p. B4. Retrieved February 10, 2024 – via newspapers.com.
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